Infographic of the Day: Will An Asteroid Destroy the Earth?

How close will we come? This close.

Doomsday approaches!

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The infographic by Mechanicsville, Maryland, designer Zachary Vabolis maps out Near-Earth Objects — NASA-speak for asteroids and other scary crap that could send us the way of the dinosaurs — according to how close they'll get to our planet and when.

The data apparently comes straight from NASA and only shows objects that are 1,000 meters in diameter or wider, ie. big enough to do some damage. Basically, Earth is like one of those movie-star action heroes that gets shot at by about 1,000 machine guns but miraculously never gets hit.